Squeezed #Weidringer [TM] for Martynas Levickis at the Wiener Konzerthaus. Because the accordion needs some love! (And I love the fact that Die Presse covers 'little' concerts like this. So good for the classical ecosystem not just review the biggest hits! (Support your paper.)
Quintuple #Weidringer for
#quatuormosaïques #AndrasSchiff (#SchiffAndrás)
and a Blüthner from 1859
at the @Konzerthaus
Ladin #Weidringer for Andrè Schuen 's Strauss-Liederabend at the Salzburger Festspiele | Salzburg Festival
Marian #Weidringer for the Feast of the Assumption at Salzburg's Franciscan Church w/the SalzburgerVirgilschola.
Tragic #Weidringer for Schubert's 4th & Bruckner's f-Minor Mass at the @salzburgerfestspiele w/the @viennaphilharmonic & @riccardomutimusic
Patois #Weidringer at the Wiener Konzerthaus for the Orchestre Métropolitain & Yannick Nezet-Seguin + Alexandre Kantorow in Saint-Saens and other assorted romantic bonbons.
Comical #Weidringer for Siegfried at the @WrStaatsoper. Including a Kammersänger that is neither. Uh well.
Tyrolian #Weidringer from beautiful Wattens where Steven Osborne will momentarily tickle the ivories at the ListeningClosely Festival run & curated by Thomas Larcher
Extent-or-not-extant #Weidringer for >Requiem pour Ophélie< with Pygmalion & RaphaelPichon at the Wiener Konzerthaus. A melange of "Le Shakespeare".
Stéphane Degout & Sabine Devieilhe
Puzzled #Weidringer at the Wiener Konzerthaus for the Quatuor Mosaïques, who changed the game for HIP string quartets forever. But now they're on retirement-watch. 😇
Cautious #Weidringer for the 'concertant-performative meta-Opera' #Amopera courtesy Klangforum Wien & Needcompany at the Wiener Konzerthaus.
You-had-me-at-Encore #Weidringer for SOKOLOV! Program? Who cares. (But it's Byrd and Brahms in regulation time.)
PostMinimalist #Weidringer for the Austrian Premiere of John Adams (Composer)' "After the Fall" piano concerto (written in response to his son's spring concerto) w/the fab Víkingur Ólafsson & the Wiener Symphoniker @ the Musikverein Wien.
intonation-sketchy #Weidringer for a dismal first half (blame resting solely on the violins) and an excellent #TransfiguredNIght with Ilya Gringolts, Lily Francis, et al.
Marathon #Weidringer to check up on the Wiener KammerOrchester at the Wiener Konzerthaus for a delightfully promising program of Bach, Britten, Pärt & Haydn.
Chop-chop #Weidringer for Salome at the Wiener Staatsoper w/ Stephanie Houtzeel (mom) and Jennifer Holloway (teen).
Fishy #Weidringer for Prokofiev's #BetrothalAtAMonastery at the MusikTheater an der Wien. Premiere of Damiano Michieletto's production.
Whipped cream #Weidringer (TM) for a selection of Surprised By Beauty Korngold & Richard Strauss' Schlagobers Ballet music. W/ Tonkünstler-Orchester, Simone Lamsma & Fabien Gabel at the Musikverein Wien.
Quintastic #Weidringer (TM) full-on Mozart-style for the Belcea Quartet & Tabea Zimmermann at the Wiener Konzerthaus
